“As IaaS adoption grows, so does the importance of strong customer service and support as well as the quality of the underlying technology,” he said. “Compatibility with existing virtualized datacenters and private clouds was also key.”

Storage was the most popular use of IaaS, used by 70 percent of customers, with on-demand compute used by 58 percent of firms, while 53 percent were happy to turnover disaster recovery to IaaS providers.

Many companies are still concerned with the technology that is powering their clouds, with over half claiming it to be a critical factor when considering IaaS.

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